Luke’s Reviews > The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin > Status Update

To Hirschfeld's old associates, it was becoming a bitter inside joke to see which individuals who'd come to the institute to discuss their gay desires or gender dysphoria had embraced the far right.

Institute staffers immediately affirmed Gerd's masculine gender identity [...] but they balked at the teen's request for chest masculinization surgery. [...] Institute medical staff reversed course when Katter returned to the clinic days later having attempted to perform the surgery on themselves, sans aesthetic, with a razor blade.

Berlin's underworld was no afterthought; it was its essence, built brick by brick into its cityscape.

A Catholic priest told Magnus that over 3[%] of his fellow Catholic clergymen were queer, which the priest believed must make his field the gayest of then all. But a butcher reported that among master butchers and apprentices, the figure was nearly 4[%]. Actors and theater costume designers self-reported at 5[%], as did naval officers...[For] college fraternity brothers and prep school students: just under 6[%].